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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Don't you ever have conversations where someone took a wrong turn at some point, and then it goes on and on and it becomes too late to put things right?”
― Nick Hornby

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.”
― Zig Ziglar

“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”
― Zig Ziglar

“What is dangerous is not making mistakes, but to be so enamored of one’s point of view that one does not let facts get in the way. To make progress, we have to constantly go back to the facts, acknowledge our errors, and move”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

“I read every book and magazine I could. Heck, three bucks for a magazine, twenty bucks for a book. One good idea would lead to a customer or a solution, and those magazines and books paid for themselves many times over. Some of the ideas I read were good, some not. In doing all the reading I learned a valuable lesson.
Everything I read was public. Anyone could buy the same books and magazines. The same information was available to anyone who wanted it. Turns out most people didn't want it.
I remember going into customer meetings or talks or go to people in the industry and tossing out tidbits about software or hardware. Features that worked, bugs in the software. All things I had read. I expected the ongoing response of: "Oh yeah, I read that too in such-and-such." That's not what happened. They hadn't read it then, and they still haven't starting reading it.
Most people won't put in the time to get a knowledge advantage. Sure, there were folks that worked hard at picking up every bit of information that they could, but we were few and far between. To this day, I feel like if I put in enough time consuming all the information available, particularly with the internet making it so readily accessible, I can get an advantage in any technology business. Of course, my wife hates that I read more than three hours almost every day, but it gives me a level of comfort and confidence in my businesses.”
― Mark Cuban, How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

“We are supposed to “agree to disagree,” a phrase now used indiscriminately as little more than a conversational fire extinguisher. And if we insist that not everything is a matter of opinion, that some things are right and others are wrong … well, then we’re just being jerks, apparently. It”
― Thomas M. Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

“Americans now think of democracy as a state of actual equality, in which every opinion is as good as any other on almost any subject under the sun. Feelings are more important than facts: if people think vaccines are harmful, or if they believe that half of the US budget is going to foreign aid, then it is "undemocratic" and "elitist" to contradict them.”
― Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

“When resentful laypeople demand that all marks of achievement, including expertise, be leveled and equalized in the name of "democracy" and "fairness", there is no hope for either democracy or fairnes. Everything becomes a matter of opinion, with all views dragged to the lowest common denominator in the name of equality.”
― Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

“Vsi tisti zmatrani ljudje po naših knjigah ti uničijo še zadnje veselje do branja. Samo jamranje, same krivice, ja, pravim, saj sem hodil malo po svetu, pa sem videl, kako ljudje živijo in vem, kako živimo doma; včasih z betom, včasih s pesom, so ohceti pa so tudi pogrebi, hudiča. Pa ne gre za to… ne znam povedati, kaj je narobe. Neki Francoz je učil svoje, da človek ni ne angel ne beštija. Jaz bi pa rad videl, da bi eden naših opisal, kako Slovenci nismo ne mile Jere ne Martini Krpani.”
― Vitomil Zupan, Menuet za kitaro: Na petindvajset strelov (Zbirka Klasje)

“Ostudna laž je, da je volk požrl babico, ko je vendar zadnjemu poštenemu državljanu znano, da je babico požrla gozdna uprava.”
― Vitomil Zupan, Menuet za kitaro: Na petindvajset strelov (Zbirka Klasje)

“O vojnah najraje pišejo strahopetci — in ti bodo s plemenitimi mislimi osrali vsako možnost spoznanja.”
― Vitomil Zupan, Menuet za kitaro: Na petindvajset strelov (Zbirka Klasje)

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and
not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms
of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Zavedali smo se, da so z brkatimi oglasi in brkatimi fotri podprte družbene norme pomembnejše od zavračanja telesa. Slabiči poslušajo svoje telo, junaki poslušajo reklame in gledajo očete.”
― Miha Šalehar, Notranji pir

“Ste opazili kako zviška gledamo na pijance, kako zlahka jih obsodimo in zavržemo kot neuporabne polizdelke naše širše družine, ki ji rečemo družba. Sploh pri moških se skozi tradicijo opijanja kažeta neizmerna hinavščina in krutost naše kolektivne morale. Fantičke najprej vzgojimo v pijance, nato pa tiste, ki klecnejo in ne zmorejo več simultanega nalivanja in opravljanja družbenih vlog razglasimo za opravilno nesposobne slabiče — pijance. Zavržemo jih s konsenzom, da so pač sami odgovorni, ker ne zmorejo samoregulacije.”
― Miha Šalehar, Notranji pir

“Že kot otrok nisem razumel marsičesa, pa sem dogme kasneje vseeno ponotranjil. Najprej: zakaj vsi ti pravi dedci ne pijejo raje soka s smetano, ker je boljšega okusa, če vina in piva in žganice sploh ne čutijo? Ampak kdo sem jaz, da bi dvomil v mite in arhetipe. Jasno mi je bilo samo to, da moram nekoč tudi sam postati tak tip. Tip, ki ne bo čutil ničesar. Tudi alkohola ne.”
― Miha Šalehar, Notranji pir

“Šanki naše domovine so težka psihiatrija, dragi moji. Tragikomedija brez primere. Prostori pogube, kjer praviloma pet ali šest omamljenih depresivnežev v noč gobezda šaljive dovtipe, da bi prikrili resnico, nikdar pa nihče na šank ne pritakne vprašanja, ki bi druščini pomagalo ugotoviti, zakaj so v resnici tam.”
― Miha Šalehar, Notranji pir

“Definicije ti prinašajo samo škodo. Krava je žival, ki daje mleko. In? Krava je torej koza. Edina pravilna definicija je: krava je krava. Vse drugo je pena. Edina enačba, ki velja je: pet je pet. Dva in tri je pet? Je ali pa ni. Če se zmenimo je, če se ne zmenimo, ni. Dve jezeri in tri bilke trave prav gotovo ni pet, česa?”
― Vitomil Zupan, Komedija človeškega tkiva